Maureen Cummins

"Newark1967 A Narrative in Black and White", Conceptual Artist Book

2021

Maureen Cummins was born in 1963 and is a native New Yorker. She received a BFA from Cooper Union, where she studied Fine Art with an emphasis on Printmaking and Book Arts, then continued her study with master printers and binders in New York City and California. In 1990 she established her own printshop in a nineteenth- century warehouse in Brooklyn, dedicated to producing limited-edition artist’s books, prints and works-on-paper. The work of Maureen Cummins is held in over one hundred permanent public collections throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Africa, New Zealand and South America. Institutional collectors include The National Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, The Library of Congress, and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Cummins’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum, including Looking Back from Ground Zero: Images from The Brooklyn Museum Collection. Other exhibitions have been at The Corcoran Gallery of Art; The American Craft Museum; The Art Complex Museum; The Zimmerli Art Museum; the Bibliotech Alexandria; The Kyoto Institute of Technology in Kyoto, Japan; and at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in Woodstock, NY. Cummins has received over a dozen major grants and awards, including grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has been awarded residencies throughout the United States and was an artist-in-residence at The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, Ireland. She currently lives and works in Mount Tremper, NY. www.maureencummins.com